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Accepted Paper:
Undoing_to_do: The curatorial, spatial politics, and the inclusion of dissident bodies in public space
Alex Ungprateeb Flynn
(University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Paper Short Abstract:
This paper draws on a body of ethnographic work conducted with Contemporary Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Artists across the Americas to undo_to_do the anthropological project with regards to spatial politics and the inclusion of dissident bodies in public spaces.
Paper Abstract:
If we work with Irit Rogoff's distinction between ‘curating’ as a specific and one-off event, and ‘the curatorial’, as a form of expanded practice, then Anthropology's remit with regards to knowledge production and pedagogy is well established. How we might conceive of the discipline's ambition with regards to spatial politics and the inclusion of dissident bodies in public spaces, however, is somewhat less clear. This paper seeks to put forward this question with reference to a body of ethnographic work conducted with Contemporary Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Artists across the Americas. Such work connects to a broader ambition, ideally to be addressed through collaborative discussion: undoing_to_do Anthropology via a revitalization of methodological practice, a renewal of a 20th Century discipline contextualized by emergent subjectivities in times of crisis.